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Sales support assistant

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Accounts assistant Group sales assistant Registered sales assistant Sales accounts clerk Sales associate Sales clerical assistant Sales officer Sales operations assistant Sales support assistant Salesclerk

Sales support assistants perform a variety of general sales support tasks, such as supporting the development of sales plans, managing clerical activities of sales efforts, verifying client invoices and other accounting documents or records, compiling data, and preparing reports for other company departments.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Checking figures, postings and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy and proper codes;
(b) Operating computers programmed with accounting software to record, store and analyse information;
(c) Classifying, recording and summarizing numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers;
(d) Calculating, preparing and issuing bills, invoices, account statements and other financial statements according to established procedures.
(e) Compiling statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.

Knowledge

  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Work skills
  • Accounting and taxation
  • Inter-disciplinary programmes and qualifications involving information and communication technologies (icts)

Digital competencies

  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Promoting products, services, or programs
  • Analysing business operations
  • Preparing financial documents, records, reports, or budgets
  • Executing financial transactions

Digital competencies

  • Accessing and analysing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Communicating
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts

Professional groups of the occupation

Clerical support workers

Numerical and material recording clerks

Numerical clerks

Accounting and bookkeeping clerks

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Accounting and bookkeeping clerks

2.363

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

51,03%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-4,14% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

80,15%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,45%

Part-time contracts

1,10% Turnover index

1.375

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

0%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Numerical and material recording clerks

51%

49%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Numerical and material recording clerks

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Numerical clerks

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Accounting and bookkeeping clerks

No experience
11%
Less than 1 year
60%
Between 1 and 2 years
10%
Between 2 and 4 years
11%
Between 4 and 8 years
1%
More than 8 years
7%
Administrative and support service activities
30%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
18%
Other service activities
13%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
11%
Financial and insurance activities
8%
Others
20%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.